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Friday, October 20, 2017

Oxbridge Social Apartheid

Nearly one in three Oxford colleges failed to admit a single black British A-level student in 2015, with the university accused of “social apartheid”.The data shows that 10 out of 32 Oxford colleges did not award a place to a black British pupil with A-levels in 2015. Oriel College only offered one place to a black British A-level student in six years.Similar data released by Cambridge revealed that six colleges there failed to admit any black British A-level students in the same year.Just 1.5% of all offers from the two universities to UK A-level students went to black British candidates.A handful of black British students – an average of 3.5 each year between 2010 and 2015 – who do not have A-levels gain places at Oxford. In most cases they come from independent schools that enter their pupils for alternative exams such as the international baccalaureate.Only three Oxford colleges and six Cambridge colleges made at least one offer of an undergraduate place to a black British A-level student in each of the six years between 2010 and 2015.